Family

Every once in awhile, life hands us challenges that require us to step away from everything we have and decide what we're doing to keep it. What are we doing to deserve the things we love most in this world?

And sometimes its a simple and resounding silence. A moment when we realize that we've put the wrong things first without even knowing it. The fact of the matter is, as long as these three souls are linked to mine in this life there's not much more I need to have. The rest is just material. Unimportant. I could lose my job, my house, my car, the clothes off my back, but as long as these three are still here with me, we can make it.

Monday's Moment - Airbed Fridays

Air Bed Fridays have become quite the tradition in our house.

 

 

On Friday, after dinner, while I'm wrestling two boys in the bathtub armed with a washcloth and a couple of rubber duckies, Daddy is in the living room laying out a cheap airbed. And when the pump turns on and whirs loudly down the hall, two little faces light up with anticipation.

 

It is so simple. We bought the airbed for when we're traveling or camping or when the hubby can't take the snoring anymore. (Yes, I snore.) But one Friday, he decided to get it out with the idea that he and Laithan would curl up and watch a movie and fall asleep. Well, it worked out a bit differently. Laithan wasn't interested in TV and Daddy wasn't interested in being a human trampoline.

 

Instead its become a playground and they love it. Lachlan climbs from the bed to the couch and back again over and over. Or giggles at Laithan's crazy flipping and jumping.

 

No one has done any actually sleeping on the air bed, but it was worth every cent.

Monday's Moment

My second born, my little fat boy, took his first steps this weekend. Unassisted, shakey little shuffling steps.

 

 

 

 What a perfect moment, and captured on film no less! I must say for all the bad aspects of the modern age and constant connection to phones and iPads and the internet, there is a positive. Our children will have an amazing wealth of moments to remember their childhoods by. I love looking at old photos and home videos of my time at home with my sisters and parents. There just isn't that much to look at. Hubby has even fewer photos and no video at all.